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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ľudina

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *ľudъ or *ľudь +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*ľudina f[1]

  1. a large man
  2. man, person, human being

Declension
Declension of *ľudina (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *ľudina *ľudině *ľudiny
genitive *ľudiny *ľudinu *ľudinъ
dative *ľudině *ľudinama *ľudinamъ
accusative *ľudinǫ *ľudině *ľudiny
instrumental *ľudinojǫ, *ľudinǫ** *ľudinama *ľudinami
locative *ľudině *ľudinu *ľudinasъ, *ľudinaxъ*
vocative *ľudino *ľudině *ľudiny
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *людина (*ljudina)
      • Old Ruthenian: *люди́на (*ljudína)
        • Belarusian: люды́на (ljudýna), людзі́на (ljudzína) (dialectal)
        • Ukrainian: люди́на (ljudýna)
      • Russian: люди́на (ljudína) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Serbo-Croatian: ļùdina (14ᵗʰ c.)
  • West Slavic:
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: ludźina

References
  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*ľudina/*ľudinъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 192
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